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Telesat seeks FCC approval to add another 117 satellites that would use V-band spectrum.
Since 2016 the FCC has approved three large low-Earth-orbit broadband constellations: 117 satellites for Telesat, 720 satellites for OneWeb, and 4,425 satellites for SpaceX.
Maxar is competing as a team with Thales Alenia Space against Airbus to build an estimated $3,000,000,000 worth of small telecommunications satellites for Canadian operator Telesat.
Hughes entered service a leased Ka-band payload on Telesat’s Telstar-19 Vantage over Latin America in 2019.
The Thales Alenia Space and Maxar Technologies team is competing against Airbus for a 2019 Telesat contract estimated to be worth $3,000,000,000.
Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, and Telesat formed the C-Band Alliance on 2018-10-01 to facilitate the transfer of C-band spectrum and distribute proceeds from cellular companies for replacement infrastructure and customer migration costs.
ThinKom and Telesat plan to test an antenna with a Telesat prototype satellite in low Earth orbit and to collaborate on business-grade terminals for Telesat’s planned 120-satellite LEO constellation.
ThinKom envisions producing around 10,000 or more enterprise terminals per year for Telesat to achieve necessary scale to keep prices low.
Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, and Telesat founded the C-band Alliance on 2018-10-01 to oversee the C-band spectrum transfer and serve as the FCC-designated transition facilitator.
Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat formalized the creation of the C-Band Alliance on 2018-10-01.
Startups like OneWeb and established companies like Telesat and SpaceX are developing LEO broadband constellations.
Telesat expected a selection between the Airbus and Maxar/Thales Alenia Space designs by spring 2019.
Telesat is developing a LEO constellation with initial plans for 117 satellites that could grow to as many as 512 depending on demand.
SSL is pivoting toward building smaller satellites and constellations of non-geostationary satellites, including competing to build a 117-satellite low-Earth-orbit system for Canada’s Telesat.
Telesat awarded two study contracts this summer to Airbus and to a team of Maxar Technologies and Thales Alenia Space to conduct detailed analyses of how to build the constellation and associated ground systems.
Telstar 18 Vantage is a high-throughput satellite and is the second Telesat spacecraft launched by SpaceX that summer following the 2018-07-22 launch of Telstar 19 Vantage on another Falcon 9 Block 5 from the same launch pad.
The Day 1 issue of the Show Daily was published on 2018-08-07 and features coverage of Rocket Lab, NASA’s smallsat initiative, Spaceflight, Terran Orbital, Ursa Major, Loft Orbital, Telesat’s LEO constellation, and Maxar’s new smallsat division.
SSL is working with Thales Alenia Space to design Telesat’s low Earth orbit broadband satellite constellation.
The prototype LEO satellite that Surrey Satellite Technology Limited built for Telesat launched in January on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, which is part of Airbus, built the prototype LEO satellite Telesat is currently testing.